"Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss." -... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, May 5, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you act. - Leonard Cohen Repeat anything often enough, and it will start to become you. - Tom Hopkins Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh A smile that begins... Sign in to see full entry.
"But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more." - Veronica Roth, Allegiant. Do you play that game in your... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it." - Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning.... Sign in to see full entry.
"It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it." - Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning.... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 1, 2023
"You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved, and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again." - Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass. It's going to happen. You don't know where or when, but it is a certainty that it... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
"To weep is to make less the depth of grief." -William Shakespeare There is no shame in crying to cope with grief. Cry a little, and then move on. You may have two weeks without tears and then cry every day for a month. Do not worry that you will never recover from your loss. You will make it a part... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
"Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 28, 2023
"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you." - Veronica Roth, Insurgent. When you experience such a profound loss, you have a kind of heaviness in your heart that feels permanent. It seems as if it will smother you with its intensity at times and makes you question if it will... Sign in to see full entry.